FINE-TUNING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINTS

The Icecaps in Greenland are melting.

Oceans will be rising.

Are you paying attention.

This phenomenon will lead to increase in oceanic waters.

Coastlines will flood.

People, plants and animals are going to die

Are you prepared to do your part to prolong life on earth.

Not that we deserve temperance from infinite intelligence.

We have become complacent in our responsibilities to the care of nature.

We have filled up the oceans and seas and lakes, the entire ecosystem with so much trash, It is a shame.

Sea-life suffer and die because of contaminated waters.

People toss trash from their cars, from sidewalks, from everywhere into streets and gutters and alleyways.

People own animals which they refuse to clean up after.

If only everyone had OCD. Obsessive and compulsive are not disorders, they are a state of mind which needs cleanliness and order.

We do not have to do huge gestures to contribute to saving the planet.

There are little everyday activities that we each can practice.

Imagine if everyone simply recycled everything recyclable.

Planted a tree.

Cut down less trees.

Use less paper.

Donate gently used clothing, housewares, and anything worthwhile to be resold and repurposed.

Teach our children from an early age to be responsible and caring to self and to others.

Teach them respect for the environment and nature.

Undertake our own backyard garden. (Please remember to water it, the sun will do the rest).

MAKE A WINDOW GARDEN.

Use less paper.

Buy a water filter or pitcher, use less bottled water.

Incur less litter.

Stop wasting food. Reuse, repurpose to a different dish. FREEZE what is possible for further use. Package food in ecofriendly containers.

Invest in cooking natural meals instead of buying tons of boxes of pre-made food, which leads to mountains of trash daily.

Use outside contraptions to dry our clothes, instead of the millions of clothes dryers turned on every second.

Walk more to our destinations rather than drive all the time.

Utilize the bus which is a rideshare.

So much more.

This is going to be us if we do no adjust our way of life.

The new species on earth after we are gone will erect a monument to our bones. We will be nothing but fossil.

Research suggests that the last two extinctions happened after intense volcanic activity.

120 million years before the Mesozoic era, the Carboniferous to mid Triassic periods, life was dominated by mammalian like reptiles. They preceded the dinosaurs.

A comet wiped out these reptiles preceded by volcanic activity somewhere around the area of India or Pangea (what the world was known as then).

Dinosaurs existed after these mammals, about 245 million years ago.

They lasted 180 million years.

They comprised the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras combined to create the Mesozoic era.

They were wiped out by changing climate, volcanic activity and asteroids.

We can arrive at the conclusion that no matter what we do, we are going to go the way of the dinosaurs.

So why should we bother ourselves about taking all the necessary measures to ensure a long life on the plane.

We should forget about all the things that are required of us to sustain balance and equilibrium on earth.

Let's just live and let live. Enjoy ourselves.

Why.

Because we are directly responsible for our own extinction. Our carbon emissions, our waste, our disregard for the atmosphere and the forests and each other.

Our non belief in a higher power than ourselves. Our belief that live only for me is the way to go.

Make the conscious decision today to change. It is never too late to start something.

Our beautiful EARTH is precious. If we respect it, it will be kind to us. It will give us back what we deserve.

Remember that at least 70% of earth's surface is water. So, if like Noah, the earth decides to allow water to overtake everything, and we have not built our ARK , WE ARE DOOMED.

SAVE THE PLANET EARTH.